The Green Bay Packers closed out the draft by filling their need at inside linebacker with a player who could start this season, then picked a quarterback who might never play a meaningful down for them.
After beginning the final day of the draft by picking Michigan inside linebacker Jake Ryan in the fourth round (129th overall), Green Bay took UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley in the fifth (147th overall) after trading up in a deal with New England.
The Packers gave up their seventh-round pick (No. 247) to move up from No. 166 to take Hundley, leaving them with three sixth-round picks. They used those to take Oklahoma fullback Aaron Ripkowski (No. 206), Louisiana-Lafayette defensive lineman Christian Ringo (No. 210) and Alabama-Birmingham tight end Kennard Backman (No. 213).
With 31-year-old reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers in the prime of his career and with No. 2 Scott Tolzien re-signing this spring, the Packers could end up developing Hundley in order to trade him down the road.
"Aaron Rodgers is one of the greatest quarterbacks," Hundley said. "I know he still has a lot of years to play, but my job as a quarterback is to go in and compete. And just play football and learn as much as possible. So that's what I'm going to do."
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• Falcons fifth-round pick Grady Jarrett, a defensive tackle from Clemson, said he and about 40 family members and close friends were at his mother's house in Conyers, Ga., when it caught fire in the early evening. Jarrett said everyone escaped but the fire burned down about half of the house.
• The Jets dealt their final pick to St. Louis for running back Zac Stacy, who wrote "yikes" on Twitter shortly after the Rams drafted Georgia running back Todd Gurley in the first round Thursday.
